bio-rad laboratories (nyse: bio and biob) offers a broad range of innovative tools and services to the life science research and clinical diagnostics markets. founded in 1952, bio-rad has a global team of more than 7,600 employees and serves more than 100,000 research and industry customers worldwide through the company's global network of operations. throughout its existence, bio-rad has built strong customer relationships that advance scientific research and development efforts and support the introduction of new technology used in the growing fields of genomics, proteomics, drug discovery, food safety, medical diagnostics, and more. based in hercules, ca, bio-rad has operations worldwide.